St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-01
ALE SOR IT'S.

The Tribune by one of those accidents that
will sometimes happen to even ''thoroughly
alive and aggressive newspaper" quoted
Seagrave Smith as saying at the Democratic
convention just what he did not say, but
what a. ID. Smith did say. The inference is
fair that the Tribune must have got the
Smiths rather mixed up.
"Confound that legislature is the sub
stance of great many profane remarks to be
heard on the street corners and in the places
where men most do congregate. "Pll bet
there isn't lawyer who can intelligently
construe the new election law. The
more L read it the less I know
about it," was the sentiment
of one well-known attorney. Selah Mathews,
the City clerk, has been sitting up nights
with wet towel around his head trying to
unravel the Inconsistencies of the law, and
Judson N. Cross has been reduced to con-
dtion that might be described as mental Jim
jams. Still they can't any of them make
it out.
A crowd of 500 surrounded man in Slip
perS who was talking eXcitedly to another
man at the corner of Washington and Nicollet
avenues yesterday. Suddenly the crowd
parted, and the other man walked down the
street between a detective and a policeman
to the city hall. What was it all about?
Why, the other man had purchased a
guaranteed to run without regu-
lating for three years. They did not fit and
some alterations were necessary, for which
the dentist charged 49, Tie other man put
the teeth in his mouth and declared that he
would not pay the extra charges, as the teeth
were warranted to fit. At the city hall the
dentist was Informed that the police force
was not a collecting agency, and that he must
recover his So by due process of law. This was
all there was to the affair that drew a crowd
that blocked the sidewalks, stopped the street
cars and started people to running from all
Tln AZ 80
isn't a marker to the insane inQuisitiveness
of city folks.
The GLOBE is in receipt Of literary Curl
osity from George Wheadon, who was re-
Gently arrested in Minneapolis, in which
he sets up general denial to the
charge made by n. o. Fansler to
the effect that he had ruined two women, de-
serted third and was guilty of living in a
state of adultery with fourth. had CON-
mitted some thirty odd torgeries and several
other offenses. He refers to the very people
he is accused of injuring to prove his good
character.
THE Hennepin avenue theater will be rap
idly pushed.to com pletion,'' said Manager f.
P. Weadon last night, land will be operated
in conjunction with the opera house to be
built by our company in st. Paul, Aug. 80.
The attraction will be one of the greatest of
New York stock companies
The mystery Of Bishop Foss' letter to G.
Neumann has been cleared at last. Yesterday
morning Mr.. Neumann came to the GLOBE
office with the letter, which he had Just taken
out of the postoffice. 1t was addressed simply
City,, and had gone the rounds and was on
its way back to the writer when overuaken.
Mr.. Neumann had not opened it. and at his
request a GLOBE reporter did So disclosing
Bishop Foss' letter. This certainly relieves
mir Neumann of any charge of carrying this
letter unmentioned though his word had al
ready been accepted
This is April l, the day set for the Tribune's
annual stroke of journalistic enterprise; the
day when it springs some prehistoric, ante
diluvian April fool chestnut, to be followed
by interviews with astonished citizens, who
are made to say: II knew it was hoax when
l saw it,; or, 1.-The Tribune fooled me for the
first time in my life''